Social Glass project at SAIL 2015

Under the umbrella of AMS, the Social Glass team and the research group lead by Prof. Serge Hoogendoorn (Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geoscience)  developed and executed a pilot live experiment in Crowd Management during SAIL 2015, the international nautical event which took place from the 19th till the 23rd of August in Amsterdam. The pilot study used a combination of various methods of real-time data collection to give an optimum picture of pedestrian flows along the SAIL route and its different areas of interest. The main focus of the study was on how to gain reliable information on pedestrian flows during large-scale public events, such as SAIL, and use this effectively for crowd management. This experiment is a first step towards the development of a real-time monitoring system that can be utilized as a support tool by stakeholders responsible for the smooth running of such large-scale events. The experiment run parallel to the established crowd-management methods used by the municipality and, therefore, had no effect on the tasks of the crowd managers.

The project attracted the attention of several media, including Parool, Telegraph, ad.nl.